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Tokyo’s underworld not pleased with Aska’s loose lips

By Kenji Nakano on September 6, 2014

Flash Sept. 16On August 28, troubled musician Aska plead guilty to charges of drug use and possession in the Tokyo District Court.

The past three months have been rough for the 56-year-old member of the pop duo Chage and Aska, and, if Flash (Sept. 16) is to be believed, he is now raising the ire of organized crime.

“Since Aska wants to avoid jail time, he’s talking openly about how he got his drugs,” an upper member of the Sumiyoshi-kai tells the weekly tabloid. “There’s that old saying about how one shouldn’t squeal. You just don’t do that.”

The gangster mentions two other celebrities, former actor Kentaro Shimizu and TV personality Masashi Tashiro, both of whom were arrested on drug-related charges most recently in 2010.

“Until the very end, neither of them said a thing,” says the gangster.

In the hearing, prosecutors said that Aska occasionally visited the Roppongi entertainment area to purchase drugs from an unnamed trader.

On August 21, Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced the arrest of two suspects, including Takahiko Yasunari, 47, a member of the Daisho-kai, an affiliate gang of the Sumiyoshi-kai, for the alleged sale of 100 tablets of MDMA (also known as Ecstasy) to Asaka for 500,000 yen.

The source quoted by Flash is not a member of the Daisho-kai but knows that Aska was a V.I.P. customer.

“After Aska was arrested people immediately started talking about whether a top Daisho-kai boss would be arrested,” says the gangster. “But Yasunari is not a top boss. It seems the police arrested him as a way to get at a top boss for another incident. This is very troublesome.”

The source says that in general people do not disclose how they obtain their drugs.